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Welcome To DMC.com
We are Northern Ireland's premier Short Oval Motor Racing promotion, bringing you the very best in Stock Car, Hot Rod and Banger racing since 2003. We promote top flight race meetings at both Tullyroan Oval near Dungannon and Aghadowey Oval near Coleraine. From the high speed, high octane National Hot Rods, to the thrill a minute wreck 'em racing of the National Bangers, DMC Race Promotions have something for everyone, from the serious motorsport enthusiast to the family looking for a day out with a difference.
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Coming Fixtures |
Tullyroan Oval
20/9/2024 @ 6pm-9pm
SEPTEMBER SPEEDWEEKEND
Practice & Test Night
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Tullyroan Oval
21/9/2024 @ 4pm
SEPTEMBER SPEEDWEEKEND
National Hot Rods 2024 British Championship
Superstox 2024 European Championship
Lightning Rods 2024 World Cup
Ninja Karts The Keir Millar Memorial Trophy 2024
1300 Stock Cars 2024 Irish Masters
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Tullyroan Oval
22/9/2024 @ 1pm
SEPTEMBER SPEEDWEEKEND
National Hot Rods The Leslie Dallas Memorial Trophy 2024
Superstox 2024 Irish Open Championship
2.0 Hot Rods 2024 Irish Masters
Lightning Rods 2024 NI Open
Ninja Karts 2024 DMC Gold Cup
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  All roads lead to Tullyroan Oval near Dungannon on Saturday & Sunday September 21st & 22nd for the annual Short Oval Racing Speedweekend, this year headlined by the National Hot Rods British Championship and the Superstox European Championship.
National Hot Rods British
World and National Champion Robert McDonald from Armadale in Scotland tops the entry list in the Cirrus Plastics British Championship for the National Hot Rods. Robert is rightly quoted by many as arguably the greatest of all time, and he will be hoping to add the British title to his CV and complete the Grand Slam of all the major titles.
Former World Champion Billy Wood from Hampshire will be a big threat in his new Mazda MX5, whilst young guns Hayden Ballard, Perry Cooke and Nick Roots are other English stars aiming for glory.
Crumlin’s Adam Maxwell defends the British Championship crown and he is sure to go close again in his Ginetta, whilst Galgorm’s Shane Murray will be hoping to retain the title he won back in 2022. Cork’s Jeff Riordan is the current form man on the local stage, and he will also be keen to claim the British title. The popular John Christie will be another top contender in his Lotus.
During the weekend the drivers will also be chasing the coveted Leslie Dallas Memorial Trophy.
Superstox European
World Champion Jordan Robinson from Portadown heads a star studded entry for the Mk2 Escort Shells and Spares Superstox European Championship, a title that will be defended by rapid Scotsman Dean Johnston. British Champion Michael Green from England is another top competitor who will be aiming for the chequered flag, alongside fellow countrymen Declan Salmon, Randall Lynn, Bradley Brooker and Callum Kelman.
Scottish aces Aaron Riddell, Kenny McKenzie, Adam Low and Ciaran Adams will also be in action, with other Ulster stars aiming for glory will include NI Points Champion Steven Haugh, Irish Champion Lee Davison, Jamie McCann and Dean Catherwood.
Lightning Rods
The Lightning Rods compete for their World Cup over the weekend, with Strabane’s recently crowned NI Points Champion James McKinney set to start as a favourite. Former British Champion Stuart Agnew from Magherlain, Portadown’s Mark Corry and Waringstown ace Ross Houston will be hoping for victory too.
Alax Butterly, Padraig Palmer and Keith Kirwan will head a quality entry from the Republic of Ireland.
Support Racing
Ahoghill lad Lewis Hazlett, the World and National Champion, will head a huge 40+ car field for the Ninja Karts racing, as the 6-11 year olds chase the prestigious Keir Millar Memorial Trophy. All the top young racers from across the British Isles will be in action.
World Champion Darren Rae from Scotland heads the entry for the 1300 Stock Cars Irish Masters, with the 2.0 Hot Rods completing the programme as they also contest the Irish Masters title.
It promises to be two action packed days of top level Hot Rod and Stock Car racing. More details can be found at www.dmcracepromotions.com
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Latest Booking List as of 19/09/24, 1pm
National Hot Rods - 2024 British Championship & Leslie Dallas Memorial Trophy, 25 cars
17 Robert McDonald
62 Ian Riordan
70 Shane Murray
71 Gordon Alexander
73 Drew McKeown
76 Adam Maxwell
77 Nick Roots
89 Gareth Bevan
133 Robert Gamble
142 James Mooney
175 Hayden Ballard
252 James Robertson
305 Billy Wood
343 Phillip McCloy
524 Perry Cooke
565 Dan Smith
669 Andrew Stewart
925 Jeff Riordan
935 Dean McCrory
940 Gary Woolsey
943 Davy McKay
944 Derek McMillan (Sunday only)
947 Davie Black
960 Mark Heatrick
962 John Christie
Superstox 2024 European Championship & Irish Open Championship, 30 cars
5 Eric Walker
22 Callum Kelman
119 Aaron Riddell
128 Ciaran Adams
154 Michael Green
446 Dean Johnston
453 Kenny McKenzie
469 Bradley Brooker
492 Randall Lynn
566 Declan Salmon
611 Adam Low
907 Jamie McCann
911 Marc Winchester
914 Lee Davison
918 David McMenemy
919 Dean Catherwood
927 Gregg Hyndman
933 Steven Haugh
935 David Beattie
937 Conor Murphy
944 Jordan Robinson
950 Jeffrey Martin
951 Richard Martin
954 Davy Clarke
965 Troy Crawford
966 Jonny Crawford
987 Paddy Murphy
989 Gerard Hartley
992 Ethan Martin
995 Andrew Murphy
Lightning Rods 2024 World Cup & NI Open, 22 cars
33 Stephen Doyle
53 Padraig Palmer
55 Ronan O'Connor
68 Fergus Brady
82 Tom Archibald
110 Adrian Gleeson
229 Keith Kirwan
320 Sean Croker
656 Kieran Burke
909 Conor Doherty
914 Jake Morgan
916 Mark Corry
936 Ian McCune
939 Darren Gaffney
942 Stuart Agnew
966 Thomas Dilly
975 Ross Houston
987 Ian Hobson
992 Brandon Litter
996 James McKinney
998 Dermot Tynan
999 Gerry Rogers
Ninja Karts 2024 Keir Millar Memorial Trophy & DMC Gold Cup, 44 Karts
4 William Myatt
9 Jayden Jeffrey
13 Tyler Ward
15 Meabh Shanahan
23 Mason Carberry
24 Ollie Williamson
33 Ethan McQuillan
37 Eddie Fowler
60 Owen Keeping
70 Dillon Murphy
75 Jack Murphy
96 Sean Boland
117 Jordan Davis
135 Rayah Burns
160 Jackson Keeping
162 Shane Forristal
187 Cahan Bradley
190 Thomas Wilkins
196 Jaxon York
243 Finley Weston
296 Cole York
313 Charlie Weston
317 Rowdy Grattan
334 Evan Beattie
336 Parker Smith
339 Henry Hunn
441 Charlie Major
482 Thomas Cooper
483 George Cooper
484 Stanley Cooper
658 Christopher Lattka
711 Annie Maher
888 William Brown
901 Sophie Evans
906 Austin Grattan
907 Luke Grattan
917 Lexie Kelly
920 Lewis Hazlett
928 Tommy Johnston
931 Jaxon Cairns
945 Matthew McNeill
979 Keegan Turtle
987 Tommy Bevan
989 Denver Bevan
Other Visitors
2.0 Hot Rods - 7 Charlie Hardie, 67 Frankie Cunningham, 82 Keith Brown, 911 Sean Maher
1300 Stock Cars - 638 Darren Rae (World Champion) |
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Added: 17/09/24
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 Some excellent oval racing was served up at Aghadowey Oval on Saturday night across all five divisions in action, with Ballymena’s Victor McAfee taking a great feature race win in the Stock Rods. In the 2.0 Hot Rods Portadown’s Wayne Woolsey won the second round of the Hoosier Tyres Challenge Series with Bleary’s Drew McKeown the winner in the meeting final.
Killyman’s Matthew Weir took a closely fought King of Aghadowey title for the Junior Productions, with Drumahoe’s Gavin Gamble taking the King of Aghadowey crown in the Rookie Bangers. The Thunder Rods completed the line up and it was Portglenone’s Jordan Nicholl who scooped the silverware.
Close competitive racing was the order of the day in the Stock Rods, with Sam McNeice first home in the opening after a great late run, ahead of Victor McAfee , Rab Preston and Dan Shannon. Preston then went one better in heat two, taking the win ahead of McAfee and Reuben Kernohan.
In the damp final, Samuel Murphy held sway out front for the first ten laps, before McAfee slipped past to take up the running. Victor was totally in control of the race and the worsening weather conditions, and he reeled off the remaining laps to take a fantastic and popular win. Murphy, Siobhan Martin and Callum Magill rounded out the major placings.
The opening race of the evening for the 2.0 Hot Rods was the final of the second round of the Hoosier Challenge Series which was held over from the last meeting. Wayne Woolsey made no mistake from pole position in this one, pulling clear to take an emphatic win over Jordan Rochford and Drew McKeown.
The opening heat proper of the night then saw a flag to flag win for Colin McFarland, as he held off Jordan Rochford and Aaron Stewart at the line. Heat two saw a clear win for Rob Barnett, who impressed to win ahead of Stewart and Matthew Nicholl.
By final time the rain had arrived, with Barnett leading early on. There was no answer to the pace of McKeown in this one though, as the British Champion powered ahead after just ten laps to reel off a very comfortable win. Woolsey, Rochford and World Champion Adam Heatrick filled out the places.
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The Junior Productions were using the reverse grid system as they contested the King of Aghadowey, with Leyton Hughes showing his quality to win the opening heat ahead of Dylan Fegan and Jack Morrison. Charlie Johnston led heat two for a time before Alfie Litter came through to take a hard earned win ahead of Ryan Berry and Owen O’Brien.
The rain appeared before the King of Aghadowey final, with Berry in the lead early on from pole position. Callum Doak then found the slenderest of gaps down his inside to take up the running, but by now all the top runners were together in what was heading for a superb finish. It was becoming an enthralling race, with Harry Minish and Johnston impressing as they came right from the rear of the line up. Doak got edged out of the lead through the Brown Trout Bend, with Minish coming through to take the chequered flag on the road. A number of penalties were then handed out for contact during the race, which elevated Matthew Weir to the win ahead of Hughes and an unfortunately demoted Minish.
The Rookie Bangers were spectacular all evening, with red flags required twice during the opening heat given the amount of action. England’s Harry Botfield came through for the win ahead of Phillip Farrell and Stephen Boyd, before Marc Morrell won the second heat from Botfield. The one also saw a rollover for Rodney Herron on the exit of the Brown Trout bend.
Botfield led the wet final early on, only to lose out to Gavin Gamble who pulled clear. As the action continued all around the track, a late caution for a loose wheel with two laps to go set up a grandstand finish. With the field biting at his tail, Gamble pulled off the perfect restart to claim a well deserved win ahead of Botfield and Farrell.
It was great to see an increased number of Thunder Rods back on track, with the action as frantic as ever. Ballymena’s Tyler McMaster impressed on his way to the opening heat win over Liam Irwin and Robert Nicholl, before Tyler repeated the dose in heat two to take another fine victory over Irwin and Jordan Nicholl.
The final saw a great scrap early on as Sean Boyd, Irwin and Nicholl all contested the top spot. Nicholl used his experience to scythe through to the lead, from where he raced home to take the win. Irish Champion James Goldie raced well to take second spot, ahead of Ian Hobson and Liam Wilson.
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Added: 16/09/24
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 County Cork National Hot Rod ace Jeff Riordan made it three World Series wins from three outings when he took the feature race win at Tullyroan Oval on Saturday evening. It was a night a great racing, with Scottish star Siobhan Martin marking her debut as an Ulster-based racer with a tremendous Stock Rods final win.
England’s Mason Carberry also drove a great race to win the Ninja Karts Golden Helmet, with the other feature race wins falling to Portadown’s World Champion Jordan Robinson in the Superstox and Magheralin’s Stuart Agnew in the Lightning Rods.
The opening heat for the National Hot Rods was brought to an early halt following a big crash for Derek Martin after his throttle stuck open at the end of the back straight. Nigel McCauley was an unfortunate innocent party who also got collected in the incident. Gary Woolsey went ahead in his new Maxda MX5 before Shane Murray swooped past to take the win over Jeff Riordan and Woolsey. Ian Riordan was the man to watch in heat two, as he took his first race win in the formula ahead of Woolsey.
The final of World Series NI Round 4 saw Woolsey ahead with Jeff Riordan chasing him down. They were together when they came across the rejoining Andrew Stewart, which forced them both wide. Jeff hit the front and never looked back as he took a convincing win, his third in as many outings. Woolsey, Adam Maxwell and Ian Riordan completed the major places.
The Stock Rod action was close and competitive all evening, with a whole host of closely matched cars. Ryan Dilly drove a great first heat under pressure to take a fine win, holding off Victor McAfee and Declan O’Connor at the line. Heat two saw Rab Preston take the chequered flag for a welcome win, ahead of Reuben Kernohan and O’Connor after second man on the road Jonny Cardwell took a penalty for contact.
The final was an enthralling race, with McAfee holding sway out front for much of the distance despite huge pressure from behind. A late caution period saw a five lap dash to the flag, with Siobhan Martin bursting around the outside with a great drive to snatch a well deserved victory on her first outing since switching her racing full time to Northern Ireland. Mark Crawford, Kernohan, Dan Shannon and Cardwell filled the places.
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A nice sprinkling of mainland visitors added an extra edge to the Ninja Karts Golden Helmet, kindly sponsored by B-TEK Battery Services. England’s Thomas Wilkins had a huge lead in the opening heat before it was wiped out by a caution period late on when Tommy Bevan rolled. That opened the door for Jaxon Cairns to grab the win over Wilkins and Jack Murphy. Eddie Fowler and Ollie Williamson tangled when chasing the heat two lead, allowing Murphy to grab the win over Cairns and Tommy Johnson.
Cairns led the Golden Helmet final from pole spot early on, before World and National Champion Lewis Hazlett powered past to take up the running. He soon had Suffolk’s Mason Carberry right with him though. Carberry went ahead, and he held for victory on despite Hazlett’s best efforts to get back on terms. Murphy took third ahead of Austin Grattan and Jayden Jeffrey, with the top three all receiving great prizes from the sponsors, as did best novice home Wilkins.
There was a first ever race win for Ethan Martin in the opening Supertox heat, as he held off Gerard Hartley and Lee Davison at the flag for a popular victory. Heat two saw Hartley take the win, withstanding a last bend assault from Davison in great fashion.
The final saw Martin set the early pace, and he led until the 5 laps to go board came out. Hartley then took over out front, but he had no answer to the flying Jordan Robinson, as the World Champion eased to the front and took the chequered flag. Steven Haugh and welcome returnee David Beattie took the podium places.
An encouraging field of Lightning Rods came to grid for their opener, with Jake Morgan taking his luminous orange BMW to a great win over Ross Houston and Ian Hobson. Heat two saw a repeat feat from young Morgan as he again led them home, this time ahead of Houston and Thomas Dilly.
Despite and upgrade on the grid for the final Morgan quickly led again, only to go out with mechanical issues whilst ahead. That put Dilly into the top spot, but he couldn’t just stave off the outside line attack from Stuart Agnew. Agnew went on to win convincingly, ahead of Hobson and Mark Corry.
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Added: 02/09/24
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 DMC Race Promotions would like to inform our drivers and fans of some important fixture changes coming up.
The Tullyroan Oval meeting on Sunday September 8th has been cancelled.
The Charity Bangers Challenge scheduled for this date has been postponed and we will look to run it in early 2025 possibly.
The Spedeworth TV/NIOval TV Series Shootout Final for Superstox has now moved to the meeting at Tullyroan Oval on October 26th.
With the World & National Ninja Karts Champion Lewis Hazlett off to race in South Africa in late October/early November, we have had to find a new date for the Ninja Karts Irish Championship. This will now take place at Aghadowey Oval on Saturday October 12th, in what will now be a huge six formula meeting!
The Stock Rods will now have an extra fixture on Saturday October 26th at Tullyroan Oval, replacing the Ninja's Irish Championship on that fixture. |
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Added: 27/08/24
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 Waringstown’s Ross Houston was on top form at Aghadowey Oval on Saturday as he took a splendid win in the feature event, the Lightning Rods King of Aghadowey. The Young Trophy for Junior Productions fell to a dominant Harry Minish from Tandragee, whilst Ballymena’s Daniel Rodgers in the Thunder Rods and Cullybackey’s Curtis Greer (1300 Stock Cars) were also feature race winners.
Some Republic of Ireland visitors bolstered the Lightning Rods field, with the opening heat falling to Ross Houston in his BMW ahead of James McKinney and Stuart Agnew. Agnew then raced to the win in an actioned packed second qualifier, leading home Houston and McKinney at the chequered flag.
Houston and Agnew were paired on the front row for the King of Aghadowey final, with Houston edging clear early on to romp to a fantastic victory. Agnew held on for a gallant runner up slot ahead of a huge battle for the minor places which went to McKinney, as the Lightning Rods impressed on their return to Aghadowey.
A very healthy field of Junior Productions provided some of the best racing of the evening, with the opening heat seeing a clear win for Belfast’s Caolan Fegan who really is now finding his feet in the formula. He came home well clear of fellow novice Ryan Jackson and Owen O’Brien. Heat two saw Tom Hewitt hold sway out front until he drifted wide on the last lap, opening the door for Harry Minish to take the win ahead of Matthew Weir and Leyton Hughes.
The final was for The Young Trophy, presented annually by the Young & Hosie families. Minish really was on top of his game in this one, powering ahead from pole position to take a decisive and deserved victory. Hughes came through for the runner up slot ahead of Weir, Dylan Fegan and Callum Doak. The top three and heat winners all received nice trophies for their efforts, alongside best white grade finisher Fegan, best yellow grade finisher Hewitt and O’Brien as the Most Improved Driver.
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The Thunder Rods were as close and competitive as ever, with newcomer James Steele heading the opening heat until half distance when Adam McKinney went through to win ahead of Steele and James Goldie. Heat two saw a welcome win for recent newcomer Joshua McCahon, as he held off Liam Irwin’s late advances with Daniel Rodgers in third.
The Thunder Rods final was arguably the race of the meeting, with a whole gaggle of cars vying for the win. Steele showed great nerve to hold the pack at bay for much of the distance, only for Ballymena ace Rodgers to slip past with just three laps to go to take a fine victory. Jason Darragh and Andrew McLean filled the podium places.
Novice Ashley Bodenham led most of the opening 1300 Stock Car heat as he impressed greatly, only for Josh McKInstry to edge past of the last lap to take a fine win over Cullybackey duo David Wilson and Curtis Greer. Heat two saw Bodenham this time hold on all the way home, taking a deserved win over Gary Freeburn and Greer.
The final again saw Bodenham again with a healthy advantage out front, but as the laps progressed Greer was slowly chipping away at his lead. Curtis took his opportunity with five laps to go, the recently crowned Scottish Open Champion powering ahead to take a great win. Bodenham impressed in second, with McKinstry and Jonathan Brown next home.
The 2.0 Hot Rods should have been the headline act of the meeting, competing in the second round of the Hoosier Challenge Series. Unfortunately though a power failure in the stadium when the cars were lined up saw the Final postponed until a later date.
The opening heat earlier in the night fell to former World Champion Jordan Rochford after long time leader Jake Devlin got onto the greasy outside line and spun late on. The second heat saw a great drive from another former World Champion, Wayne Woolsey, which netted him an impressive victory over Matthew Nicholl and Rochford.
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Added: 26/08/24
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